Has anyone made some "made for social Media" memes of our 911 research. I have tried and tried to get our points across on certain platforms but the attention level is that of a flat earther and does not go past a Meme or youtube video. I have a group I run and I would love to have the group wake up to some easy viewing pictures. Is there a specific thread with a set together or should I open up a photo editor and make some for us?

OpticalIllusion » September 11th, 2017, 3:31 am wrote:Has anyone made some "made for social Media" memes of our 911 research. I have tried and tried to get our points across on certain platforms but the attention level is that of a flat earther and does not go past a Meme or youtube video. I have a group I run and I would love to have the group wake up to some easy viewing pictures. Is there a specific thread with a set together or should I open up a photo editor and make some for us?

I think most everyone is aware of the kneeling going on in the NFL (and now MLB) so I thought I'd point out the new ways the players are celebrating their TD's. A - peeing like a dog or B - power fist salute!

CluedIn » September 25th, 2017, 6:56 am wrote:I think most everyone is aware of the kneeling going on in the NFL (and now MLB) so I thought I'd point out the new ways the players are celebrating their TD's. A - peeing like a dog or B - power fist salute!

Classy!

Lol. I always laugh when they do pointless stuff like this, especially since it's always a reaction to a psyop

No, the title is not mine; it´s actually novel academic jargon. I got it from a paper recently awarded the Ig Nobel prize.

From the website of "Improbable Research":

The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative, and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology. Every year, in a gala ceremony in Harvard's Sanders Theatre, 1200 splendidly eccentric spectators watch the winners step forward to accept their Prizes. These are physically handed out by genuinely bemused genuine Nobel laureates.https://www.improbable.com/ig/

Some of the latest winners:

Never smile at a crocodile: betting on electronic gaming machines is intensified by reptile-induced arousal (claiming that holding a 1-m saltwater crocodile affects subsequent gambling behavior, including bet size, speed of betting, final payouts and trials).https://link.springer.com/article/10.10 ... 009-9174-4

By having a laugh at eccentric studies on the fringe of practical applicability, and setting itself up as a judge of academic sobriety, the Ig Nobel outfit strengthens popular confidence in the mainstream scientific establishment. That may in fact be its raison d'être.

But I digress. The paper on pseudo-profound bullshit is more than an innocuous joke. It reads like a DBA piece, setting supernatural or paranomal belief, religiosity, conspiratorial ideation and endorsement of complementary and alternative medicine, on one side, up against the capacity for reflective and analytic thinking, on the other.

Bullshit is defined as...

...seemingly impressive assertions that are presented as true and meaningful but are actually vacuous.and...a game of verbal smoke and mirrors suggesting depth and insight where none exists.

Bullshit is not the same as nonsense or lies. Nonsense is an unintelligible sequence of words, whereas lying is defined as...

...a deliberate manipulation and subversion of truth, as understood by the liar.

The study exposed 280 undergraduates to lines of bullshit created by randomly organizing buzzwords into statements with syntactic structure but no discernible meaning. The source of these buzzwords was a "selective collection of actual tweets from Deepak Chopra’s Twitter feed".

Conspiracy ideation was measured with a questionnaire including items such as “a small, secret group of people is responsible for making all major world decisions, such as going to war”. Responses were made on a 5-point scale (definitely not true, probably not true, not sure/cannot decide, probably true, definitely true). The list of conspiratorial beliefs was derived from this instrument: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl ... /table/T1/

The study pretends to answer the questions: Are people able to detect blatant bullshit? Who is most likely to fall prey to bullshit and why?

The enlightening conclusion: people vary in their receptivity towards bullshit.The desired interpretation: reflective and analytic thinkers have no business scrutinizing government actions and mainstream scientific claims.

It´s a looong bullshit paper, but it makes for an entertaining read:On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit. Published in Judgment and Decision Making, Volume 10, Number 6, November 2015, pp. 549–563.http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.html

From the conclusion:

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share (Frankfurt, 2005). One benefit of gaining a better understanding of how we reject other’s bullshit is that it may teach us to be more cognizant of our own bullshit.